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Ninja Tables <= 5.2.16 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

CVE-2026-86612Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.2.16Update to 5.2.17 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.3% chance in 30 days18th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Ninja Tables – Responsive Table Builder for Data, Pricing & Product Tables ninja-tables

  1. Affected≤ 5.2.16
  2. Patched in5.2.17

Update to 5.2.17 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.2.16. Version 5.2.17 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ninja Tables – Responsive Table Builder for Data, Pricing & Product Tables.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.2.17, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Ninja Tables – Responsive Table Builder for Data, Pricing & Product Tables to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jakub Herman.

The Ninja Tables plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.16. This is due to the use of do_shortcode() on user supplied input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site. The impact depends on which shortcodes the site has registered, so a site running a plugin whose shortcodes expose data or perform actions is affected more severely.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤5.2.10Update to 5.2.11
CVE-2026-65474
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Table Creation
≤5.2.6Update to 5.2.7
CVE-2026-2306
Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Exposure
≤5.2.5Update to 5.2.6
CVE-2026-25008
Medium6.5Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
≤5.2.4Update to 5.2.5
CVE-2025-69351

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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